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Buddhacarita by Ven Asvaghosa - Ancient Buddhist Texts

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Buddha-carita, or Life of Buddha - 230<br />

28. Having declared the glory of the Law of Buddha, he built a round<br />

Stupa and gave a royal coronation to Saunu, sending him into the<br />

wood pre-eminent with the holiest saints and Caityas, and bidding him<br />

worship the sacred relics; and having commanded Rāhula, Gautamī,<br />

and the other women led <strong>by</strong> Gopikā, with staves in their hands, as<br />

shaven ascetics, to practise the vow of fasting called ahoratra, and<br />

after that the Lakṣacaitya ceremony and then the rite called<br />

29. The Aṣṭasāhasrikā of sacred authority, the Geya and the Gāthā,<br />

the Nidāna and the Avadāna, and that which is called the Sūtra of the<br />

great Yāna, the Vyākara and the Ityukta, the Jātaka, the work called<br />

Vaipulya, the Adbhuta and the Upadeśa, and also the Udānaka as the<br />

twelfth. – Teaching (these sacred texts) and making current the Yāna<br />

for common disciples, that for Pratyeka Buddhas, and the Mahāyāna,<br />

and proclaiming them all around, accompanied <strong>by</strong> thirteen and a half<br />

bodies of mendicants, the conqueror of the world went out of the city<br />

of Kapila.<br />

30. After displaying miracles in the city of Kapila, and having paid<br />

honour to his father, and having made Rāhula and his companions<br />

Arhats, and also the Bhikṣuṇis with Gautamī and Gopikā at their<br />

head, and various women of all the four castes; and having established<br />

Saunu on his imperial throne, and the people in the Jina doctrine, and<br />

having abolished poverty and darkness, and then remembering his<br />

mother, he set forth, ever worshipping Svayambhū, towards the

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